ArtProcess STUDIO LOG enables artists to document the day-to-day evolution of works in progress.

The artist describes how an artwork comes into being by posting (over time) status updates along with images of the day's progress.

The aim of STUDIO LOG is to record the art process as it happens - giving witness to the patterns of ideas, forms, and events that aren't often observed in the completion of a finished work.

In theory, this is the most intimate part of artprocess where a little of the artist self is revealed. It's proved to be the most difficult challenge for the artists so far - many are completely against the idea of openly discussing their process.

I hope to present two paintings - one of Wild Flowers and the second of a Wave. The Wild flowers are based on photos taken at a big garden in Co. Cork. The idea of the Wave came when I was summitting paintings with the theme of 'Origin'. When I started the Wave, I got the same feeling of excitment that had got previously from seeing the flowers (and also from dancers - not in my project at the mom ... continued

Porto Seguro is historically the first city which was founded in Brazil. There I saw the first houses, the first church, the first prison and a beautiful view of the blue sea.

A guide took me over the historical site talking about the few nice little, colourful houses which have survived time. This houses are so small and beautiful, the very first constructions of the beggining of the bir ... continued

Infinite possibilities of assembling the pictures taken in Trapani. This studio log will work as a tool for me to look at these pictures and decide what would be a strong composition to print 5 pictures on a 50cm x 60cm format. [goto]

Can an ideal be in a seasonal state?Winter will follow and then springtime will be back again.The purpose is to express this feeling through a still life and in a figurative manner.Following the ancient masters, a still life with "vanitas" and the old technique might be a way. [goto]

As I was looking for a new subject I found the image of an old print whose subject was Orestes pursued by the Furies or Erynies.The sepia color allowed to imagine what would be like once painted and coloured [goto]

During the summer, I had been complaining to a friend that the last work I sold was in 1986. This surprised her as she's always been enthusiastic about the stuff I do, and so suggested I send some paintings (within the month) to where she now lives in North America that she could try to sell. I eagerly went out to buy the best quality linen/cotton weave and stretched 4 new canvases. As I was wo ... continued

I received an invitation by email from a Florentine gallery called Otto Luogo dell'Arte LINK (translates as 8 Place of Art) to make an "8" for a show to take place on the 8th March which is International Women's Day. [goto]

I'm pretty sure that landlords dislike artists... I was thinking in the studio after having received a notice to quit the apartment we were living in.

An hour or more passed during which time I had unconsciously torn a piece of paper and continued to roll it back and forth between my fingers. I suppose it is a sort of nervous reaction to a familiar sense of desperation.

The created work has interwoven a time of memories within itself.Each knot encloses an infinite space of my mind, generating a physical shell through the movement of my hands. The aim was to create organic volumes of a stereometric body, an artistic geometry presenting the ancient way of working of an artisan.Macramé is the art of making decorative knots, a technique used by sailors to p ... continued

The created work has interwoven a time of memories within itself.Each knot encloses an infinite space of my mind, generating a physical shell through the movement of my hands. The aim was to create organic volumes of a stereometric body, an artistic geometry presenting the ancient way of working of an artisan.Macramé is the art of making decorative knots, a technique used by sailors to p ... continued

Gian Genta was born 68 years Savona, where he resides. Selected twice to the Italy Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2011 in both Milan and in Turin today his activities he committed almost exclusively in ceramics. Frequent circles attended the school and the legendary artistic Albissolese since the 60-70 years after the debut of four Roma Gian Genta lives in close contact with the biggest ... continued

The story of Pandora's Box can be interpreted in more than one way, but is often thought to be a version of "curiosity killed the cat". This image is a personal interpretation of the aforementioned Greek legend. The image is reproduced on a transparent support and bonded to glass using the Diasec process.

The image measures 55cm x 55cm and is mounted into a metal structured side table me ... continued

I will be working on three large canvas 122cm x 61cm x 5cm. I am going to attempt a triptick. Or at least a two piece. I have done a large 4 piece linked together with stained glass. (will upload shortly), but this is my first time trying narrow tall pieces. Right now I am in the process of looking at the blank canvas. I will post the first image when I'm done looking and thinking. [goto]

For years I've kept a box where I throw drawings and sketches. Sometimes I'll do these things to work out a composition in advance, or sometimes during the painting process, if I run into trouble, a small study of some component or other is helpful.At times I might make some drawings to determine if I want to proceed with a painting idea and then decide against it. Other times I just may do s ... continued

I'm presently working on two projects concurrently. One is another experimental box with figures. I'm hoping this might spark some new direction.The other is four new canvasses in my ongoing series of heads.Due to the nature of oils I find it best to work on a few pieces at a time.For the record I will be sending the four "head" paintings i'm working on here to Trapani. They are ea ... continued

These are just some photos of the paintings I have been working in lately, the last version of Hanjo's portrait and Miguel's, head.Somehow they seem to relate to each other in curious silent dialogues.Images of the paintings while unfinished, still in the easel,waiting for me, still free to turn into something different. [goto]

As I introduced it in my dossier, its energy the energy and drive I brought back from Trapani;I'm trying to use it NOW before it leaves me, to brake through certain restraints in colour and brushwork. [goto]

The kora is a 21 stringed harp/lute from West Africa. The materials used to make the instrument are a calabash (cut in half), skin (usually cow hide), fishing line and wood. The best description of its sound is a mix between harp and flamenco guitar. The instrument has been played for many hundreds of years by hereditary troubadour musicians from the Mandinka tribe, playing a r ... continued

some abstracts from the video "Murphy's Ashes" recording the installation set in Italy in the Autumn 2006.images from "Tutti i Santi" in Tarquinia and images from Winter Solstice in Roma, Castel Sant'Angelo [goto]

whilst working on a big new project to be realized in trapani I decide to take one or two of the works beeing created for the exhibition in summer - for me another step of the project "getting closer" [goto]

I began this series of prints or rather a suite of prints in June 2006 approximately and they are still in development. For some reason or other I did not feel ready to 'document' my process online. Now I am ready.They are a series which explore our relationships with ourselves and others through the 'trace monotype' process which I have always loved and I have combined these with wood as a ... continued

As I've already said I do not "invent" my theme in the meaning of creating kind of an "own world".

As far as my subject, the human body, is concerned, I try to avoid taking it as a mere object or a pretext for the interpretation of underlying issues. And I do not paint a model sitting in my studio in the flesh, to avoid the well known pose of the "reclining nude". Instead, I use a camer ... continued

Of course it's interesting watching an artist at work. I myself like to watch when craftsmen are doing their work with that incredible dexterity and knowledge. Or I like to visit plants to find out how all these complicated things are put together. This is one side. The other side is that I need to be alone while at work. I can't stand people watching. They are disturbing that silent dialogue I do ... continued

John-Paul made a suggestion on the forum (Artists Café, Reviews etc.) that is worth thinking about. To be honest the suggestion of a new project is still nebulous. So it's up to us to ponder on it for to make the contours a bit sharper. [goto]

Mimma Umeton, daughter of Luigi Bertani, a native of Lucca, and Elisa Umeton of Novi Ligure, is born in 1949 in Lucca, where she attends the local institute of art. In order to experience different artistic realities, she moves to Rome. At the Academy of Fine Arts she makes the acquaintance of a French sculpture who has adopted the City as his home, Pier Gabriele Vangelli, creator of the splendid ... continued

As I said before, this painting was turned upside down along the way, as I kept thinking of the words Egyptian Batt while doing it. Now I have retouched it and it hungs head up on my studio wall. You tell me how you like it more. [goto]

The Club de Madrid, officially or not quite, was formed in December 2007, when I decided to join Karen in Madrid and Hanjo thought it might be a good idea to join us too. Hillel was not there in person but in our thoughts and our talks, so he is the member of honor of EL Club de Madrid.

We had plans to share some of our moments there with you but it seems like none of us got the time to d ... continued

The expressive power of the Gaze has been my obsession for quite a while. If you take a look at my work so far, you will notice that the expression on my portraits varies from tragic to preoccupied to severely calm. I have been photographing myself in this mood and have always asked my model not to smile. My thrill about the Trapani event though, provided a different rute for my gaze obsession. Th ... continued

Recently I learned a very important lesson: you may learn things about your painting anytime, at any improbable circumstance, during an apparently irrelevant conversation. For one reason or another I have been very attentive lately. I seem to have been learning things...

This is a painting which, I think, marks the end of empty spaces around my figures. It also marks the beginning of the ... continued

This studio log was inspired by a comment by J.P. referring to the psychological content of paintings, which had me look back at the things I had been doing five years ago. Well, sometime back then I painted the "Portrait of a painter who died young of old age". I am happy to witness that the latest things I made, have been young girls making their way through fields of radically pruned vines. A s ... continued

This is a diptich which will be called "Looking glass" unless I change my mind. I started these two paintings six months ago or more and found myself in a deadend. I had now idea what to do with them to make them move on. Now that I got rid of the photograph they started from, I think I might be on to something. [goto]

I look at older work and writings of mine and the more I look, the more I find links to the turns my work has taken and is still taking. This makes me think that I must have always been honest in my painting after all. It has always been about me and we are both travelers on the same train. What I see, it shows. And what I feel, it makes feel. Only, the painting most of the times is aware of what ... continued

Karen and I are having a show here in Syros in September. I had planned which works to show and all, when suddenly new paintings started happening. Well, it is nice to know I am not dead inside. [goto]

This title is taken of the beautiful essay by C. Ch. Bailly about the El Fayum portraits. My project is to make a set of portraits showing a population of human beings who display their individuality in a moment that is not an instant but a permanence of his silent and eloquent presence. [goto]